The chief of Humberside Police has hit out at an Islamaphobia campaigner for wrongly linking his force with a viral video showing officers violently hitting a man in the head.

Columnist and Islamaphobia campaigner CJ Werleman posted a video on social media yesterday showing a number of police officers attacking a Muslim man, saying that the footage showed the six officers from Humberside Police that had been suspended last week.

The video quickly went viral online, and has now been viewed more than 330,000 times, and shared over 6,000 times by people, including left-wing commentator Owen Jones.

In the post CJ Werleman said: "Six Humberside (UK) police officers have been suspended for carrying out this vicious attack on a British Muslim man."

Humberside Police have said that a viral video showing officers hitting a Muslim man is not connected to the six officers suspended this week.

Humberside Police released a statement yesterday saying that it did not believe that the officers in the video were from their force, and that the incident was not related to the constables that had been suspended.

Superintendent Matt Baldwin, head of professional standards at Humberside Police, said: “We can confirm that the suspension of the six Humberside Officers last week is not in relation to the video footage currently being circulated on social media.

“Based on the uniforms being worn, the officers in the video do not appear to be Humberside Police Officers. However, we will carry out further checks to confirm that this is the case.”

Grimsby-born Chief of the police force Lee Freeman followed this with a tweet, condemning the claims of Mr Werleman, after it emerged that the video in fact involved officers from the West Midlands Police.

Lee Freeman, the Chief Constable of Humberside Police.

He said: "Whilst the video will quite rightly be investigated by the IOPC, the officers are not Humberside officers and not connected whatsoever with any other suspensions we currently have ongoing.

"Perhaps CJ Werleman could avoid the 2+2= 55 approach to journalism next time?"

West Midlands Police released a statement regarding the video yesterday, saying that it would be investigated.

It said: "West Midlands Police is aware of video footage that has been posted to social media, that shows a man being restrained by officers.

"The video footage, together with footage from body cameras, worn by the officers is currently being reviewed. Our Professional Standards department will consider whether the matter needs to be referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)."

The Humberside Police Professional Standards Department has launched an investigation into six constables after they were suspected of breaching behaviour standards over a separate matter.

Lack of self-control and tolerance, discrimination and behaving in a way that discredits the police force are all ways an officer can breach the Standards of Professional Behaviour set out to the police.

The six constables, all from Hull, were all suspected of breaching the code and the case has been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

Head of Professional Standards at Humberside Police, Detective Superintendent Matt Baldwin, who has confirmed that three of the Force's officers have been arrested

He said: “Six Police Constables in Hull have been suspended for suspected breaches of professional standards of behaviour.

“Following an internal investigation by the Humberside Police Professional Standards Department, we referred the case to the Independent Office for Police Conduct who have asked us to continue with the investigation under their supervision.

“The internal investigation is underway, therefore we cannot provide any further details at this point.”

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